Lehigh Hanson Speed plant earmarked to become distribution centre
The Lehigh Hanson Speed cement plant in Indiana is expected to cease production in about four years and become a distribution centre, following the completion of the modernisa...
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Pakistan central bank forecasts large cement capacity expansion
Pakistan's cement industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, as a number of players are planning capacity expansions at an estimated cost of US$2.12bn between FY1...
Raysut Cement 1H18 profit falls
Raysut Cement Co reported a 14.4 per cent increase in revenues in the first half of 2018. Revenues advanced to OMR42.8m (US$111.3m) from OMR37.4m in 1H17. However, the Omani ...
Cementos Fortaleza to burn El Huixmí tyres
Cementos Fortaleza will play a key part in disposing of 867t of tyres that were stockpiled in the El Huixmí sanitary landfill in Pachuca de Soto, Mexico. Municipal president...
Sustainable goals for HeidelbergCement
This week HeidelbergCement released its 2017 Sustainability Report, describing the publication as an integral part of the group's strategy. Dr Bernd Scheifele, chairman of th...
Lehigh Hanson announces US$600m expansion and modernisation project
US-based Lehigh Hanson Inc has announced a US$600m plan to modernise and expand its plant in Mitchell, Indiana. The project to increase production capacity while significantly ...
Uzbekistan records 6% fall in production in 1H18
Uzbekistan has recorded a 5.8 per cent YoY fall in cement production in the first half of 2018, decreasing to 3.95Mt from 4.20Mt in the year-ago period. Depending on the regio...
Kenya's cement consumption falls to 1.4Mta in 2Q18
Cement demand in Kenya has fallen to 1.4Mta in the second quarter of the year, according to a report from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). The agency attributes ...
Maple Leaf Cement updates about expansion
Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd has advised the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) about the company's progress on the implementation of the additional of 7300tpd clinker line at its ...
LafargeHolcim on track to open new Cimencam plant in early 2019
Construction on the new Cimencam plant in Nomayos, Cameroon, is progressing well and the 0.5Mta works is on track for commissioning in early 2019, according to reports by Ecofi...
Work to start on new Almaty cement plant
Construction of a large cement plant has begun in Almaty region, Kazakhstan. According to investors, the enterprise has a favourable location. Kerbulak district is located in t...
Lafarge Malaysia MYR270m ECRL contract suspended
Lafarge Malaysia Bhd MYR270m (US$66.7m) contract to supply cement to the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project has been suspended. The cement producer said that China Communic...
Strike held in Mizoram against rising cement prices
All Mizoram cement and iron rod dealers on Wednesday observed a daylong strike across the northeast Indian state to protest a hike in cement prices by three companies – Dalmia,...
Puerto Rican cement sales up 18% in June
Cement sales in Puerto Rico increased 17.9 per cent YoY in June 2018, representing a sixth-consecutive monthly growth. Domestic sales reached 1.23m bags (42kg/94lb), reports Es...
Gujarat leads the way in plastic co-processing
Gujarat cement plants substituted coal with 350,000t of plastic waste in 2017-18, the highest volume across all Indian states. "We facilitated management of 120,000t of plast...
Shree Cement acquires 98% stake in UCC
Shree Cement has completed the acquisition of a 97.6 per cent stake in the UAE’s Union Cement Co (UCC). The deal was struck through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Shree...
Mindanao region poised for higher cement demand
Currently in the Philippines, there are about 60 nationwide infrastructure development projects related to Build, Build, Build scheme and about 14 of these are in Mindanao. M...
ARM negotiating US$120m loan deal with IFC
ARM Cement Ltd of Kenya is trying to reach an agreement with the International Finance Corp about a capital injection of US$120m in loans, acccording to ARM's Chief Executive O...
Former Vicem general director dismissed from executive comittees
Tran Viet Thang, former general director of the Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), has been dismissed as member of the Executive Committee of the Central Businesses’s...
CTIEC to start Adrar Line 2 procurement
China Triumph International Engineering Co Ltd (CTIEC) will start equipment procurement for the US$211m second production line of the Adrar plant in Algeria, which is under dev...
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